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Debate and savviness seems to be flying across the Twitter verse these days, Stowe Boyd wrote a post about that One quote there: And Dennis has been making his displeasure about the use of the term ‘social business’ known, but not by arguing about the principles involved. Instead, Howlett has adopted a ‘savviness’ cant: he […]

I’ve spent over a month in the past three in the US, split between three different trips for different events, and over this time I’ve met with dozens of startups, many of who are from outside the US and are making their first tentative forays into the US scene. I’ve had conversations with a bunch […]

After the recent defrag conference, I traded emails with event organizer Eric Norlin. Defrag was the second Norlin Inc event I’d been to after attending Glue conference in May this year. After defrag I tweeted saying that Defrag and Glue, along with Antipodean event Webstock, are the three best conferences I’ve attended (and I’ve done […]

It’s not often I agree with Dennis Howlett. The two of us have a history of going at it hammer-and-tongs in the defense of our own perspective on an issue. Sometimes it gets messy but that’s all part of the *fun*. Recently however, in something of an “Emperor’s New Clothes” moment, Dennis posted the not-too-subtle […]

I’m a little sceptical of tech conference launchpads – while they’re a good opportunity for start-ups to leverage the big audiences that conferences attract, in the past they’ve tended to consist principally of consumer plays that, while exciting at first blush, end up feeling like an unfortunate one night stand – a good idea at […]

I’ve posted before, yelling from the rooftops about my distaste for traditional public relations. As I said then; communication 2.0 is all about disintermediating those who add no real value to a transaction, A lot of PR I’d put into that class – filters that at best slow things down, at worst cause untold damage […]